Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...

Jun. 5—For plants that crawl, climb and vine, a trellis is an indispensable tool for your home garden. Whether you are growing squash, peas or tomatoes, these simple structures help gardeners to save ...

I was out recently pruning my roma tomatoes, which you may recall were the only tomatoes to survive the tree squashing the garden. They are growing on a trellis that was on the end of the garden that ...

Florida weave for tomatoes is a budget-friendly DIY trellis method for indeterminate and determinate varieties. Marje / Getty Images If you’ve ever tried growing lots of tomatoes at once, you know ...

Some explosive growth is on the way for garden plants, especially tomatoes and peppers! Like it or not, you will need to give your plants some strong support to bear all that future fruit. Today we ...

1. Trellis your row of tomato plants while they are still small. Hammer 8-foot stakes two feet into the ground, one on each end of the row and 10 feet apart within the row. Install hardware cloth ...

Conventional gardening wisdom says you should pinch off the suckers that grow between the main tomato stem and the leaves of indeterminate (vining) tomato plants to encourage bigger fruit and more ...

Peter Richards shows how to support tomatoes, and Celeste Scott shows how to calibrate spreaders. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, local gardener Peter Richards demonstrates ...

A step-by-step guide for those who are growing their first tomatoes this year — and for anyone who needs a refresher course. By Margaret Roach As prime tomato-transplanting time arrives this month up ...